Are UK businesses too hyper-fixated on 'efficiency'?

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and I think we have had a distortion in
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the business world particularly in the
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UK uh where the focus on what you might
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call operational
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efficiency which by the way in the short
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term generally works fairly well you
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know drag in some consultants on a gain
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share agreement get rid of a few people
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but a bit like Russian roulette it's a
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game you can play once or twice but
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you're not really advised to play it
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repeatedly okay and I think we have this
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problem which is there are a lot of
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businesses out there which have become
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so fixated ated on uh this sort of
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efficiency model which I think comes
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from the the shareholder value movement
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i think the shareholder value movement
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then disproportionately gives power to
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the finance function and then you end up
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with a kind of corporate sclerosis which
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I think happens and so reminding people
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that actually business should be
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opportunistic is yeah you know is a
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necessary job I

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